Teaching and Advising. The teaching and advising responsibilities of Employees include: teaching scheduled courses in a manner which normally reflects the description in the University calendar and the schedule shown in the approved time table; contributing to the creation, content, implementation, and delivery of academic courses and programs; developing and maintaining scholarly competence and effectiveness as teachers within their discipline; informing students at the beginning of each course about the methods of instruction and evaluation in their courses; accepting a reasonable share of responsibility for academic advising and consulting duties; providing reasonable access for students outside of scheduled classroom hours; and examining and otherwise evaluating student progress in courses and programs for which they are responsible.
Teaching and Advising. Effectiveness in teaching is an essential criterion for reappointment, promotion and tenure. The prime indicators of effective teaching include, but are not limited to: • intellectual competence, integrity and independence. • evidence of knowledge of the field. • evidence of a willingness to consider suggestions that emerge from peer review of one’s teaching. • evidence of the ability to work with other faculty members in designing and delivering a curriculum that fosters student learning. • evidence of the ability to present course materials clearly and effectively. • evidence of the capacity to structure the course and its assignments in ways that promote student learning. • evidence of the employment of strategies to assess students’ learning and adjust one’s teaching in light of the findings of those assessments. • evidence of an ability to stimulate students’ intellectual interest and enthusiasm. Any additional criteria specified in college, school, unit and department guidelines shall supplement the above list. Academic advising entails advising students about their program of academic study and is an important part of the mission of the University. It includes assisting them in course and program selection, but it does not include supervising instructional academic work, such as independent study, theses, or dissertations. Interest and skill in the general guidance and academic advising of students will be an important consideration for reappointment, promotion and tenure. The parties recognize that no single set of measures and methods can be prescribed to evaluate the quality of teaching or advising. Some of the measures and methods, however, may include but are not limited to:
Teaching and Advising. Teaching and advising includes the responsibility of Faculty Members:
Teaching and Advising. Effectiveness in teaching and advising is an essential criterion for reappointment, promotion, and tenure. Faculty are required to demonstrate that they have met the criteria for effective teaching/advising in the areas listed in 7.4.4.3.1(or in 7.4.4.4.1. for those in the rank of Professor).
Teaching and Advising meet all the criteria for Associate Professor, plus the following:
Teaching and Advising. Effectiveness in teaching is an essential criterion for reappointment, promotion and tenure. The prime requisites for effective teaching are: — intellectual competence, integrity and independence; — demonstrated knowledge of the field; — a willingness and capacity to grow in the field; — a willingness to consider suggestions and to cooperate with other faculty members in teaching activities; — a spirit of scholarly inquiry that leads to the strengthening of both course content and presentation in light of developments in the discipline; — a vital interest in teaching and working with students; — an ability to stimulate students’ intellectual interest and enthusiasm;
